Family and Population in 19th Century America / / ed. by Maris A. Vinovskis, Tamara K. Hareven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• MitwirkendeR: Alter, George,; Chudacoff, Howard P.,; Condran, Gretchen A.,; Easterlin, Richard A.,; Engerman, Stanley L.,; Glasco, Laurence,; Hareven, Tamara K.,; Modell, John,; Vinovskis, Maris A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hareven, Tamara K.,; Vinovskis, Maris A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Quantitative Studies in History ; 1446
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the relationships of demographic processes in different population groups to household structure and family organization, and their implications for family behavior. Emphasizing dynam...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Series Preface
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Farms and Farm Families in Old and New Areas: The Northern States in 1860
• 2. Patterns of Childbearing in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Determinants of Marital Fertility in Five Massachusetts Towns in 1880
• 3. Changes in Black Fertility, 1880-1940
• 4. Migration and Adjustment in the Nineteenth-Century City: Occupation, Property, and Household Structure of Native- born Whites, Buffalo, New York, 1855
• 5. Newly weds and Family Extension: The First Stage of the Family Cycle in Providence, Rhode Island, 1864-1865 and 1879-1880
• 6. Patterns of Consumption, Acculturation, and Family Income Strategies in Late Nineteenth-Century America
• Contributors
• Index